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• Everything Is Tuberculosis

  the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

  Green, John, 1977-

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  If you aren't on the hold list yet - now is your chance! Green's new book tells the story of Henry, a young tuberculosis patient in Sierra Leone, who Green befriends on a visit to a hospital there with Partners in Health, a non-profit health aid…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rabid

  a Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

  Wasik, Bill,

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  Did a devastating illness fuel the creation of some of our most epic and hated/loved horror tropes of all time? Wasik thinks so - before rabies was understood, the symptoms made people behave like zombies, werewolves, and vampires. An incredibly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pathogenesis

  a History of the World in Eight Plagues

  Kennedy, Jonathan,

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  Kennedy's book focuses on how disease has shaped history, using the latest social and science research to illustrate how different diseases have had on everything from the extinction of the Neanderthals to the Spanish colonization of South America.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Cure for Darkness

  the Story of Depression and How We Treat It

  Riley, Alex (Science writer),

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  Alex Riley explores what depression is exactly and tells the history of the scientists and psychiatrists who have spent their lives trying to treat it. His own struggle with the illness was his inspiration, and this deeply empathetic work shines a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hidden Valley Road

  Inside the Mind of An American Family

  Kolker, Robert,

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  If you are looking for a history or pop science book that reads like fiction, look no further. Journalist Robert Kolker delves into the lives of the Galvin family to try to understand why such an astonishing number of their children (6 out of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Emperor of All Maladies

  a Biography of Cancer

  Mukherjee, Siddhartha

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  No list like this could be complete without Mukherjee's brilliant Pulitzer Prize winning work on the history of cancer and cancer treatment. A beautifully written epic going back thousands of years.

• Cancer

  the Emperor of All Maladies

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  If Mukherjee's nearly 600 page epic on cancer is too intimidating for you - Ken Burns and PBS made it into a film.

• Get Well Soon

  History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

  Wright, Jennifer, 1986-

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  If you find all this talk of death and disease and gross stuff that happens when people get sick is getting you down, you might want to check out Jennifer Wright's history of plagues in Get Well Soon. Wright imbues the history of some of our most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ghost Map

  the Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

  Johnson, Steven, 1968-

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  A deadly cholera outbreak takes hold in Victorian London, its spread exacerbated by the lack of public facilities, sewage, and trash removal that characterized the gas lamp era before proper infrastructure was put in place. Johnson's book tells the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And the Band Played on

  Politics, People, and the Aids Epidemic

  Shilts, Randy

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  An early classic on the AIDS epidemic, this book was first published in 1987 and documents the apathy and ignorance surrounding the spread of AIDS in the early part of the epidemic. The book was written by controversial journalist Randy Shilts, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And the Band Played on

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  The HBO film based on the book of the same name, produced by Aaron Spelling.

• How to Survive a Plague

  the Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

  France, David,

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  This deeply empathetic and impassioned work gives a more recent account of the struggle against AIDS particularly of the everyday men and women who fought tooth and nail to figure out a way to turn AIDS into a disease people could live with, even if…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Survive a Plague

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  The award-winning documentary actually came first, and its success inspired France to write the book.

• Crisis in the Red Zone

  the Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come

  Preston, Richard, 1954-

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  Preston first wrote about Ebola in 1994 with his best-selling book The Hot Zone. Crisis in the Red Zone documents the spread of the outbreak in 2013-2014 - from the first known case to the human stories of victims and the medical professionals who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kissing Bug

  a True Story of a Family, An Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

  Hernández, Daisy,

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  A fascinating look at a wide-spread and deadly disease that does not make the headlines. Chagas disease is spread by a parasite found in a bugs that mainly live in tropical climates - mostly in rural Latin America. Hernandez's book tells the story…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Phantom Plague

  How Tuberculosis Shaped History

  Krishnan, Vidya,

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  Medical journalist Krishnan traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of New York in the 19th century to modern India. Her investigation looks at why the disease has been eradicated from western countries but is still prevalent in many…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Emergency

  a Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  Fisher, Thomas (Board-certified emergency medicine physician),

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  This memoir/year in the life of COVID tells the story of the infection from the point of view of an ER doctor of color on Chicago's South Side. Fisher draws a clear and convincing picture of health disparities and puts faces and trauma to them so…Read moreRead more of this annotation